Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.
Cinda Williams Chima
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Cinda Williams Chima
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Springfield
Ohio
Seventeen
Thing
More quotes by Cinda Williams Chima
As for my family, my father was Danel he died as a mercenary in the southern wars, Han went on. My mother's name was Sarah, called Sali, and my sister was Mari. They died last summer. But then, you already knew that. Every time you forget, I'll remind you. That's the blood sacrifice I made to be here, and that's enough.
Cinda Williams Chima
There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.
Cinda Williams Chima
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
Cinda Williams Chima
And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.
Cinda Williams Chima
He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.
Cinda Williams Chima
Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.
Cinda Williams Chima
That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.
Cinda Williams Chima
You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.
Cinda Williams Chima
Well now, Jack, Hastings said from the sidelines. I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start. He sounded amused.
Cinda Williams Chima
If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.
Cinda Williams Chima
Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.
Cinda Williams Chima
Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.
Cinda Williams Chima
But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.
Cinda Williams Chima
Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
Cinda Williams Chima
His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side.
Cinda Williams Chima
Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.
Cinda Williams Chima
It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.
Cinda Williams Chima
Will you give the girl to me? she said. Will you let me try? He nodded, dizzy with relief. Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me.
Cinda Williams Chima
The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.
Cinda Williams Chima
She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.
Cinda Williams Chima